Improper Certificate Validation Affecting apt package, versions <1.0.9.8.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.13% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-APT-407422
  • published5 Dec 2017
  • disclosed5 Dec 2017

Introduced: 5 Dec 2017

CVE-2016-1252  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 apt to version 1.0.9.8.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apt package and not the apt package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The apt package in Debian jessie before 1.0.9.8.4, in Debian unstable before 1.4~beta2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 1.0.1ubuntu2.17, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 1.2.15ubuntu0.2, and in Ubuntu 16.10 before 1.3.2ubuntu0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a repository-signing protection mechanism by leveraging improper error handling when validating InRelease file signatures.

CVSS Scores

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